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There's something so sweet about being on your yoga mat, whether that be at Jivamukti, Dharma Mittra, or in my living room.
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.
Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.
The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.
Yoga is not just repetition of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.
If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.
Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.
Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.
I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.
The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.
In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
During recording I was into yoga hard and I was very sober and clear minded. But when I went to mix I took a break from that.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
At the end of my daily yoga routine, lying on the floor in Corpse Pose, I feel as though I am floating in a sea of pure love.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don't want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.
Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.
Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.
In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.
Yoga is a part of who I am. It has given me a permanent relationship. A relationship between my body, my mind, and my emotions.
I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.
The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
I picked up yoga. I tried to do cooking a little bit. I almost burned my house down, but it's all good. So I just stuck to yoga.
If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.